VMWare

In this article, we’ll show how to manually patch a VMware host from the command line, and how to upgrade your ESXi version (in this example, we will upgrade a…

By default, inactivity timeouts are configured in ESXi Host Client or vSphere Web Client management interfaces. Inactivity timeouts cause user sessions to automatically close if users have not opened a…

In each new ESXi release, VMware updates the version of the virtual machine and the virtual hardware. In new versions of the VMware VMs, new functionality appears, new virtual devices…

VMware vSphere PowerCLI is a set of PowerShell modules to manage VMware infrastructure from the command prompt. You can use PowerCLI to get a state of virtual machines, datastores, networks,…

I saw a strange error: Errno 28 “No space left on device” when trying to manually update a VMWare ESXi version on a standalone host:

The error “Windows cannot find the Microsoft Software License Terms” may appear when installing the Windows 10/11 or Windows Server 2022/2019/2016 operating system on a bare-metal computer/server or on a…

This article explains how to install Windows 11 as a guest OS in a virtual machine running on VMware Workstation or VMware ESXi hypervisors. When trying to install Windows 11…

In this article, we’ll look at how to increase the size of a VMFS datastore using the vSphere Web Client interface or VMware ESXi command prompt.

In VMware vSphere, you can use an iSCSI disk as a shared datastore for your ESXi hosts. An ESXi host accesses iSCSI storage over your local network using the TCP…

I wanted to install a VMWare ESXi in a Hyper-V virtual machine running on Windows 10 for my homelab stand. Hyper-V and VMWare ESXi support nested virtualization so this scenario…